Sheila Mackenzie Jewett Bailey, only child of Sarah Hart (Phelps) and John Howard Jewett (1843-1925), was born on June 9, 1882, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where her father was a writer and publisher of the Worcester Gazette . John Howard Jewett, known as Howard, was the author of "The Bunny Stories" series for children, originally created for his daughter. Sheila Jewett Bailey attended the Dalzell School in Worcester. On June 15, 1905, she married William Bacon Bailey (1873-1952), son of William Leonard Bailey and Ellen Henrietta Bacon; he was a sociologist, Yale University economist, and later supervisor of the U.S. Census. They had one daughter, Dorothy Bailey, born October 26, 1909. Sheila Jewett Bailey died on April 20, 1923, at her home in Hartford, Connecticut.
From the guide to the Papers, 1757-1949 (inclusive), 1890-1919 (bulk), (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
